Feelings and Emotions Conversation Cards

Ask a room of students how they feel and “good” comes back again and again.

102 discussion questions
102 reflection sheets
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Grades: 2–8
What you get: 102 discussion questions across six focus areas75 pages
Type: Conversation Cards
Use it: Print + digitaldigital = any device, no student logins
Competency: Self-Awareness
Topic: Emotions & Feelings

About this resource

Ask a room of students how they feel and “good” comes back again and again. These feelings and emotions conversation cards offer 102 morning meeting questions that stretch that vocabulary, from “Which feeling word do you like the sound of the most?” to telling nervous from excited. For Grades 2–8, they build Self-Awareness by keeping the focus on students’ own feelings and the idea that each one is okay to have.

What students practice

Building a bigger bank of feeling words
Reading clues in their face and body
Telling similar feelings apart
Sizing up strong, mild and mixed feelings
Noticing how feelings change
Accepting a feeling while choosing an action

What’s inside

102discussion questions across six focus areas, 17 in each: feeling words, clues in my face and body, telling similar feelings apart, strong, mild, and mixed feelings, how feelings change, and all feelings are okay

102reflection sheets that match the cards, two to a page

75pages

Cards printed six per page on 17 full-color pages
A numbered question list with a type for each prompt (Observation, Analytical, Reflection, Imaginative and more)

A look inside

“How do sad and lonely feel different inside you?”

“If your mixed feelings were a smoothie, what would be in it?”

“How can a feeling be okay even when an action is not?”

“How are feelings like waves at the beach?”

How to use these feelings and emotions conversation cards in morning meeting

Question of the dayPost one card on the board or in a pocket chart and let students answer aloud, in writing or on sticky notes as they come in

Morning meeting circles where partners turn and talk before a few students share

Small groups, counseling sessions or an SEL lesson that start with the feeling-word cards and build from there

Reflection journals using the matching sheets

Grade fit

Younger students can answer “What does your face do when you feel really happy?” straight away. Older students get more out of telling disappointed from frustrated or sorting out a jumble of feelings, so the cards double as conversation starters for middle school.

Digital version

In the digital version, students answer on any device with no student logins and download an answer sheet to hand in.

Good to know

The questions stay with noticing and naming feelings, not with what to do about them. Calming strategies are outside this set’s scope, so plan those talks separately.